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• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  I felt the sudden urge to write something tonight. I wasn’t sure what ... start at the beginning. Now that I think about it, the beginning makes a lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  water wars, lovecrafting, and 361 other REX events your annotated guide to everything currently unfolding on campus

  

  The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and the Class of 2023 is ... time filled with tons of events that will help you get to know the ... about the different parts of campus that you otherwise might not get to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a very small sample of the MIT population, mostly just the people I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  There are two books in my backpack right now. The first is a little spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage while Neil walked to the edge and crouched down to shake hands with ardent ... looked around the crowd, and my hand went up first. He made eye contact and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it with cells! But when there are too many inputs coming into the system, you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An MIT Adventure Life at the 'Tute

  

  I have been at MIT for the past year, and it has been nothing short of an adventure. For instance, I came here straight from the country: had never seen a taxi, had never been on a subway (except for the one at

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  you through the unsatisfying yet convenient medium of cell phone ... minute. Either the ounce of fluff in its jaws was somehow dulling its survival instincts, or it was wondering if I was made of the same material. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our beloved river is frozen over. While this year that isn’t exactly the case

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Kennebunk, Maine. The sand was the perfect dampness for writing, so I proceeded to write little messages all over the beach... D) Mark Zuckerberg ... the mid-60s!). This is the view from Simmons' 8th floor terrace. F) My

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

   inspired by the possibilities for the future of accessible drinking water and centered on a sculpture by the architect Ciro Najle. This internship ... exhibition for Fall 2011 that is focused on the large-scale sculpture Cummulus

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  office just a few feet down the infinite corridor. I enter with my morning ... climb the iconic front steps and glance up at William Barton Rogers’ name – MIT’s founder – chiseled high up in the building’s façade.  

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot about the InternshipPlus requirement, but never thought much about it since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet TOFU Warning: post may contain dangerously high amounts of "daaaaaaaawwwwww"

  

  First of all, apologies for the radio silence. I've been sequestered in reading and committee for the last few weeks. Today may be a Sunday, but it is no different. But before I once again immerse myself in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Watch this! An MIT blogger alum deservedly gets a moment in the spotlight.

  

  , she is a graduate student at Harvard, and is still involved with the MIT community as member of the MIT Cheerleading Team (yes, MIT has a Cheerleading ... will not link to here.) The folks at PBS's Nova have been producing a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  From The New York Times (check out the awesome photo of Paul, Jess ... Chris Mills write blogs for its admissions site. Mark Wilson for The New ... confession in her blog on the college Web site. "There've been several times

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  hot frantic kitchen where the concentrated afternoon heat fringes on ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... over the counter. Tonight's dinner will feature an ambitious BBQ

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  By Chris Merrill '12 All throughout today, the day after CPW, I kept ... class (for all those who have forgotten, an essay is the English version of a pset), the situation isn’t any different. It’s a brand new, red

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  On March 1st, this was posted on the MIT '12 Facebook discussion ... blog is the only reason to even wake up in the morning ;) ), go to the ... going on in like 20 cities around the world... and it sounds like just the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The youngest known meteor impact crater in the world is ... this blog and is trying to tell me something. So here are the highlights ... stick is the greatest invention since written language -while cramming for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006